Caringo Adding Citrix Cloud Portal Business Manager Compatibility

Caringo
Inc. announced its support for Citrix
CloudPortal Business Manager 2.0.

It integrates as a connector and
empowers organizations with just-in-time cloud storage infrastructure,
protocol support, reducing time to market and simplifying ongoing
cloud storage service delivery.

The business manager helps companies
build a cloud business by moving beyond the traditional IaaS model to
one that also includes applications, workloads and services accessed
through a self-service catalog. Combined, the cloud service
orchestration abilities in business manager and the company’s object
storage software enable any enterprise or service provider to deliver
a scalable cloud storage service. The service solution optimizes
operational costs and reduces management resources to save time and
money. The object storage software is Citrix ready cloud verified.
This designation is awarded to third-party products that have met
verification criteria set by the company, and gives customers a
confidence in the compatibility of the joint solution offering.

"Our
goal with CloudPortal Business Manager 2.0 was to enable businesses
to manage and deliver cloud services beyond IaaS,"
said Sameer Dholakia, group
VP and GM, cloud platforms group, Citrix. "Caringo
is a great example of the next-generation cloud services that are now
being brokered by CloudPortal Business Manager for our customers who
are on the path to true IT-as-a-Service. The combined solution
enables rapid deployment of cloud storage services that are
differentiated with Caringo’s enterprise feature sets, leveraging
their ease of management and excellent hardware efficiency to enable
cloud builders to deliver cloud storage services as a profitable
business."

It provides users with:

• Self-service, point-and-click
  deployment – It delivers point-and-click SaaS with subscriptions
  that can be customized to deliver different content protection
  levels, predefined quotas, integrated user authentication,
  authorization and full billing support.

• No-downtime expansion –
  The software boots from bare metal with no provisioning or storage
  balancing – rack and stack a server, boot up and capacity is
  available.

• CDP; eliminate RAID and backups
  – It offers replication and erasure coding data protection schemes
  that can be customized to offer any storage SLA while reducing
  datacenter footprint and costs by up to 60% when compared to 3
  replica-based protection schemes.

• Access via any protocol (including
  S3 API support) – It offers native S3 API support in addition to,
  a RESTful HTTP 1.1 interface, and multiple gateways that offer CIFS,
  NFS, FTP, WebDAV, and POSIX compliant access to Caringo object
  storage.

• Reduce CAPEX and OPEX – Reduce
  datacenter footprint with up to 98% useable HDD capacity and reduce
  power utilization by up to 35% with Darkive – Caringo’s adaptive
  power conservation functionality the can spin down drives and
  conserve CPU utilization.

• Demonstrate governance and
  compliance – It is the only software-based object storage
  solution to offer both WORM and integrity seals enabling the ability
  to prove for evidentiary purposes that content has not been tampered
  with.

"Caringo has worked hard to
ensure that our integration into Citrix products makes IT managers’
jobs easier – from initial deployment through multi-petabyte
expansion," said Mark Goros, CEO of Caringo. "Our
difference is experience, which we have used to refine our object
storage software over the past 6 years. When paired with a robust
cloud service orchestration like Citrix CloudPortal Business Manager,
enterprises are able to rapidly deliver a cloud storage service to
their employees, business units or partners, while service providers
can offer a cloud storage service more robust than Amazon S3."

For a limited time, Caringo is
offering 50% off the
first 500TB for Citrix CloudPortal Business Manager
2.0 users.